Kirk Bloodsworth
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Kirk Noble Bloodsworth was the first American to be sentenced to death row who was exonerated by DNA fingerprinting. He was convicted of murder for the 1984 killing of a nine-year-old girl in Rosedale, Maryland, and then, in 1993, he was set free after DNA testing proved him innocent. Kirk spent almost nine years in prison, two of which were on death row. DNA evidence also identified the real killer, Kimberly Ruffner, but not until 2003.
He is now advocates for criminal justice reform, and is the subject of the book Bloodsworth: the True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA by Tim Junkin.
